next videos being rendered, sorry for the insanely long wait (Patreon)

im gonna try to quickly recap why this is all taking so long for just a single video -

first off, its a lightning taker pov blowjob video from serahs point of view (69 position, i think the first i ever made?)

was originally a ~15 second loop, so that this port would be easier compared to last time, and that i can get it out quicker

it was then expanded, and is now a almost minute long with a cumshot finish, with all the other parts of the animation not being looped

animation was then finished on christmas

porting was done very shortly after

a billion problems that i had no idea how to get around kept popping up every step of the way

was impossible to find help online with certain problems i kept running into

the help that was available online sometimes didnt work with this video, due to serahs model working very poorly with some certain things in blender (this exact model of hers will be dropped in the future due to this.  another higher quality one was available recently, and i will port it myself later, so shes not completely gone forever)

everything i spent a year on since the last video that had to do with textures/materials was completely scrapped and redone from scratch.  this means how things like hair, skin, teeth, eyes, the floor, lightnings gloves, literally everything looks better now compared to last time

the lighting took me a month to do, its an extremely hard thing for me to pull off, i was never good at it, not even once, haha.  alot of the lighting problems i had was because my outdated setup (talked about right about this) was getting in the way, when i thought it was the lights the whole time, but that was only part of the problem

since this video has a cumshot and im not familiar enough with it (only my 2nd ever time using this), it gave me over a month of problems.  because of how the video is, upsidedown, the cum just would NOT stick to serahs face, ever.  it took forever and ever to find out the problem, my version of the add-on that makes this "stick" effect happen was outdated, it was impossible with the version i was on.  after updating, i had to learn on the spot how to use it, and testing it yet again from scratch takes an insane amount of time, especially since you have to get the right settings to make it even behave like cum in the first place, its all very difficult, especially when i want it to look good even if i am still new to it, so much trial and error took up alot of time, besides the fact that blender shows you the result of all this trial and error very slowly to, so it was alot of changing one small number, waiting, going back into the animations beginning to reset it and repeat

with all ports, there will always be small animation errors/changes compared to the sfm version.  i have to reanimate certain parts inside blender, and this all seems unavoidable, so im trying to fix it as best as i can.  for this animation, its fine though, so no need to worry lol

as you can guess, every step of the way brang small/large problems to, and i wont list everything, so just know that i was working day and night on this tirelessly, i definately spent around 500 hours on the blender parts alone, i didnt die or go on vacation or nothin

now, since the last video cost $200 for 30 seconds (1000 frames at 60 fps), this video is 3491 frames, as you can guess, itd be too expensive, even with having a tier help with paying for the render farm, its just too much money, and this is all when the videos i make are at 720p, not 1080p, which would DOUBLE the time and cost

so, i will be rendering the first 1000 frames myself, and i have thankfully have 3 other people helping me render, alongside the renderfarm, which will render over 1000 frames, a little more than last time, so itll be over $200 again.  as you can guess, this is all very messy because of how long i make my videos and make them at 60fps (which i think is too important to lower to 30fps, since i make pov/tpov content).  i originally planned to work on my next thing while my renderfarm took care of all the rendering, but instead i will have to wait, since blender wont be useable while i render alot myself

since many problems have been figured out, i saved alot of things in text documents over the past few months, i have my new setup saved in blender for next time, so will something ever take SIX months just to fix up again in blender?  the answer should be a fuck no, i learned an insane amount of new info over these past months when it comes to blender, so once i work on the next video and need to port that, alot of the common problems i usually get are figured out at this point, just need to find a way to get super high quality square enix graphics XD (yes i know itll never happen, but let a man dream)

i really cant apologize enough for how long this all took, especially when i thought itd be quick, since the last videos wait wasnt that bad (a month iirc), so, im very sorry

im very surprised my money amount isnt at zero, with zero patrons sticking around, but i hope you guys who do remember i exist end up liking the new video, sorry for this super long message to, blender just reeeally didnt want me to release this video or sumthin XD

time to get back into the groove of animating in sfm soon, hope to come out with more things quicker now that alot of the parts im stuck at are figured out, so lets aim for at least one more animation in our lifetimes!